Class by numbers. 62% of judges went to public school compared with 12% of union leaders wp.me/p15p2Q-gch

I now have a vote two sets of elections in May. I will be voting Labour in both and urge everyone to commit now to voting Labour in May. It will be a low turn out and every vote matters. It is the least you can do to stop Reform. It's our national duty to make a stand against hate.

The fact that Lyse Douchet's salary is lower than Mason's or Kuenssberg's shames the BBC.

Imagine if the focus of our media was policy rather than anonymous political briefings and sensationalism.

When was the last time the BBC’s political correspondent Chris Mason reported any government policies or interventions?

Two things are true in this instance: 1. Keir Starmer made a huge error of judgement over Mandelson, which was entirely avoidable. 2. The media is determined to destabilise the Government because stability isn't profitable, and many of them are far too full of their own self importance.

Keir Starmer allowing Morgan McSweeney to resign is another sign that he is weak. He should have sacked him. His words of praise also show he has learned nothing from this crisis. I still hope Starmer succeeds, but he really needs to step up.

Just beyond parody at this point

Morgan McSweeney’s exit is a good thing but a Labour government will only succeed if it rebuilds the coalition of left- right sections of the party. Start by bringing in John McDonnell to the Treasury… and bring back Emily Thornberry because she is fantastic.

Morgan McSweeney should be suspended from the Labour Party. He has done it huge harm and brought it into disrepute.

Morgan McSweeney has resigned? He should have been sacked- publicly sacked. I have been a supporter of Starmer but this just shows more weakness.

This is so true. However I did expect better of Starmer. I expected nothing else from Johnson.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Morgan McSweeny is the source of the poison killing the labour party. It's his guidance that's leading the party into ruin. That little shit needs to be removed from number 10

The BBC hacks gorging themselves over Mandelson & going after the PM. Whilst doing that, they haven't forgotten their love affair with Reform. They've given them a nice advert to raise their profile, with a 1 hour documentary, by Kneussberg. Having so many right-wingers in the BBC is paying off.

Morgan McSweeney must go and this moment calls for a sacking not a ‘resignation’.

This is the litmus test for Starmer - he either disposes of Mandelson’s henchman Mr McSweeney with urgency or risks losing his premiership this year. It’s that simple.

Glasman is Reform wearing a Labour Rossette Nigel’s agent

Tweet so good I had to post it here

Noam Chomsky gladly interacting with Jeffrey Epstein is the complete and utter destruction of everything he supposedly stood for. Reputational cancer.

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

It is now absolutely time to expel Mandelson from the Lords and the Labour party.

And the bbc had Mandy on as pundit recently. Trying to rehab his image. What a chancer. And BBC should know better

Cannot emphasise enough how bad Starmer's judgement was to bring Mandelson back.

emails show da Silva emailing Epstein...asking for money to fund an osteopathy course and other related expenses. “I will wire your loan amount immediated’y [sic],” Epstein replied. A few days later, da Silva sent Epstein email: “thank you for the money which arrived in my account this morning”.

The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said bsky.app/profile/impl...

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton

Paging @iaindale.bsky.social x

The people of Gorton & Denton deserve much better than an opportunist extremist using their community as a platform for his own career. HOPE not hate will be actively campaigning to make sure Matthew Goodwin does not get elected.

Can't believe I forgot to celebrate Justin Webb Day yesterday. Must have been distracted by all that normality in America

After Trump’s awful NATO comments, I presume Tony Blair will be joining the chorus of disapproval. Anything from him yet?

The model long pioneered by Brendan O'Neill, Claire Fox, and the Spiked crowd here in Britain

In case anyone is still wondering.

Snitch on your classmate. Snitch on your country. See how it works when it comes to Kemi Badenoch? bsky.app/profile/gsoh...

Sometimes you get a few minutes on live TV with a billionaire. I tried to make them count! 😅

The BBC reporter described Trump’s rambling as “enigmatic”. Jesus Christ man, have some dignity

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

The media should use "defect" for an MP, peer or councillor changing party. For ex-MPs, try "joins" party "Defect" is esp inaccurate for people like Simon Danczuk who was not in the party for which he was once an MP when joined Reform. (It would be inaccurate if Hoey too - given a 7 year gap).

Such judgement

You mean Blair still has a reputation?

If Farage is to be believed and he's declined applications from ex Tory MPs but let in Gullis, Jenkyns and others, it begs the question - who the hell was unsuitable?

Badenoch has missed a trick not doing her sacking Jenrick video like his fare dodging one. Chasing him through Portcullis House saying 'you're bang to rights'.

Britain is broken. We broke it. Vote for us. A bold electoral platform.

One hates to be the Tony Benn "ishoos" guy. But who is the audience for politics-as-Hollyoaks? I'm not sure it exists at all.

It took until 17.17 for Radio 4's PM programme to even vaguely discuss anything about policy in its Jenrick package. And that was the Tory chairman making a vague, unevidenced and unchallenged claim that his party is the party of a strong economy. It might as well have been an "Inside Soap" podcast.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Maybe Morgan McSweeney, Luke Akehurst and other factional, Blue Labour strategic geniuses are seeing things we can't, but being destroyed by parties on the centre-left in Wales and Scotland does not scream go Reform light to win to me.